The same expression is applied generally to those who never were heathens (Matthew 8:22). “Sins”: “Etymologically, (trespass) points to sin as a fall, and (sins) to sins as a failure” (Gr. "Commentary on Ephesians 2:1". Ephesians 4:15a 2. BibliographyEadie, John. He is completely incapable of restoring life to himself. 97-99). It is also evident by considering the express testimony of God on the subject. Spiritually dead, as being destitute of a principle of spiritual life, a quickening principle to enable the soul to perform spiritual operations. [Note: _ "The Living Messages of the Psalms", C. Hugo McCord, pp. Their whole life was sin. Barclay gives us some good observations concerning spiritual death. (1 Thessalonians 5:6, etc.). Deceit The best authorities insert ‘your,’ which belongs to both nouns. This is the sword that kills souls, and cuts them off from God. Transgressions (false steps, cf. O what a terrible state is it to be thus dead in sin, and not to know it, not to feel it, to be in no way sensible of its present danger and certain end, unless delivered from it by a mighty act of sovereign power! I. "Calvin's Commentary on the Bible". No (Luke 16:31). To what sins this representation is to be applied, and to what description of persons it belongs. To His affection for men. "Commentary on Ephesians 2:1". It missed it. What has it to do with a happy life, so long as every sentiment of the mind, and every act of the will, is death? p. 47,—“licet non satis vera Hieronymi distinctio videatur, qui παράπτωμα primum ad peccatum lapsum esse dicit, ἁμαρτίαν, quum ad ipsum facinus perventum est; tamen in v. παράπτωμα proprie inest notio peccati quod temere commissum est, i.e. But we are not at liberty to set aside the declarations of our Lord and of the Apostle Paul, that, while we remain in Adam, we are entirely devoid of life; and that regeneration is a new life of the soul, by which it rises from the dead. BibliographyHawker, Robert, D.D. Isaiah 9:2; John 5:25, “dead” (spiritually), 1 Timothy 5:6. The fourth and last property which we shall mention is, that the soul in this state is deserving of and prepared for eternal death. Sinners in their pre-Christian state were "dead in sins"; but that deadness was not something they inherited, but came about through the guilt of sins committed. "— Ephesians 2:1. The opinion of Baumgarten-Crusius is akin. If our time permitted, we might describe it as being supernatural in its origin, nature, and effects; immediate, abiding (1 John 2:19), saving, transforming, and a most glorious and happy change, giving glory to God, and conferring happiness on men. In the former more distinctly appears the idea of an offence against another; in the latter a guilt, or penalty, or depravation, contracted upon ourselves. Admit that you have no hope. Death is but the cessation of life. 2. As a result in the spiritual realm they share His throne, something which is to be followed eventually by literal ‘physical’ resurrection (John 5:28-29). Not the Ephesians themselves. Now death, take it in a spiritual sense, it is either the death of law, our sentence--as we say of a man when he is condemned, he is a dead man--or death in regard of disposition; and then the execution of that death of sentence in bodily death and in eternal death afterward. (Gill states "...he begins with the Ephesians, and expresses the former state they were in by a death, which is ascribed to trespasses and sins...." He actually mentions later on that it was due in one sense to the original sin, but also restates that it was from the trespasses and sins.). We don’t even get near it. And you hath he quickened; his verb quickened is not in the Greek, but the defect of it may be supplied from Ephesians 1:19, thus: The greatness of his power to us-ward, and to you that were dead in trespasses and sins; the remaining part of that chapter being included in a parenthesis, which, though long, yet is not unusual. Spiritual death is the state of being dead, of being against God and unable to respond to God spiritually. The Expositor's Greek Testament. “And hath made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus.” Jesus not only rose from the dead, to which His people are conformed in regeneration, but also ascended into heaven, and “sat down at the right hand of the throne of God”; and this He did as the Head, so that in Him His people sat down in heavenly places; and His exaltation there is the assurance that they shall personally appear in heaven, and share in the glory the Father hath bestowed on Him. In other words from the moment of believing they reign along with Him in life and in death. Ephesians 3:14-21 The Fullness of God's Love, Intro: Problems of Disunity B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1950), Vol. We come, thirdly and lastly, to the ultimate object of God’s grace to sinners of the Jews and Gentiles. Third, the design for which that change had been effected. (C. H. Nay, sin itself, it is not only a cause of death--of temporal death as it is a curse, and so of eternal death; of that bitter sentence and adjudging of us too, both that we feel in terrors of conscience and expect after--but sin itself is an intrinsical death. by what is here translated offences, are commonly understood trespasses less grievous than by the word sins. We benefit from this ‘breathing room’ of life. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/bnb/ephesians-2.html. For those who have seen dead bodies, it can be an eerie experience. Nor can it mean that they had no living intellect or mental powers, which would not have been true.
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